Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword. The Greatest Con of Our History -- Introduction. Oil, War, and Things Worth Fighting For -- An Exercise in Critical Thinking: Today's Sharpest Minds Tackle the War and Its Context -- The Thirteen Years' War -- Postscript. Some Final Thoughts -- Iraq, 1917 -- Global Democracy...Through Superior Firepower -- Postscript. On Luttwak's Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook -- Simple Truths, Hard Problems: Some Thoughts on Terror, Justice, and Self-Defense -- Driving the Runaway Train: Neocons, 9/11, and the Pretexts for War -- The Ideology of American Empire -- Neoconservatives, Israel, and 9/11: The Origins of the U.S. War on Iraq -- A Real Hijacking: The Neoconservative Fifth Column and the War in Iraq -- Unjust-War Theory: Christian Zionism and the Road to Jerusalem -- Manipulating Catholic Support for the War: The Black Operation Known as "Conservatism" -- What the War Is All About -- Risky Business: The Perils of Profitmongering in Iraq -- Postscript: The More Things Change -- The Professionals Speak: Military Reactions to Operation Iraqi Freedom -- An Inside Look at Pentagon Policy-Making in the Run-Up to Gulf War II -- The Moral Responsibility of the U. S . Military Officer in the Context of the Larger War We Are In -- Introduction to Chapter 14. To War or Not to War, That Is the Question -- Hindsight is 20-20: Iraq and "War on Terror" Veterans on Gulf War II -- Just Following Orders: One Sailor and His Vision of the Higher Law -- Introduction to Chapter 16. The Case of Staff Sgt. Al Lorentz -- Why We Cannot Win -- The Professionals Speak II: The Intelligence Community and the Intelligence Debacle -- Drinking the Kool-Aid: Making the Case for War with Comprimised Integrity and Intelligence -- Sham Dunk: Cooking Intelligence for the President.

The Professionals Speak III: War College Professors Apply Their Expertise -- The "War on Terror": Ingenious or Incoherent? -- A War Crime or an Act of War? -- The Professionals Speak IV : A Scientist and a Diplomat -- Neocons & Loose Nukes -- A Call to Conscience -- Defying World Order: Reactions from Vatican and UN Perspectives -- The Iraq War and the Vatican -- The United Nations Charter and the Invasion of Iraq -- Legal Nonsense: The War on Terror and its Grave Implications for National and International Law -- Propping Up a Dying Giant: American Economic and Military Survival Tactics -- In Her Death Throes:The Neoconservative Attempt to Arrestthe Decline of American Hegemony -- A New "American Century"? Iraq and the Hidden Euro-Dollar Wars -- One Good Scandal Deserves Another: The Snowballing of American Lawlessness -- The Law of Armed Conflict and the "War on Terror" -- A Prison Beyond the Law -- Postscript. Seeking to Render Rasul Meaningless -- Postscript. An Illusion of Lawful Process -- Far, Far Worse Than Watergate: The "Outing" of Valerie Plame -- Postscript. The Anonymity Trap -- A Torture(d) Web -- Postscript. A Voice in the Wilderness for the Rule of Law -- So Much for the Fourth Estate: Our Imperial Press -- Chronicles of Abdication:Press Coverage of the War in Iraq -- 1. Yellow Journalism: "Anonymous" Lives and Thrives in Washington -- 2. Which War Is This Anyway? -- Weapons of Mass Deception: The Air War -- Truth from These Podia: A Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Information Warfare, and Psychological Operations in Gulf War II -- The Other Side of the Story: Honest Men Consider the Situation of Iraq -- Behind the Smoke Screen: Why We Are in Iraq -- A Priest Looks at the Former Regime -- Portrait of Noble Resignation: Tariq Aziz and the Last Days of Saddam Hussein.

Enduring Injustice: Iraq and the Current Political Landscape -- Nemesis and Name-Calling: Who Are the Iraqi Rebels? -- The Politics of Electoral Illusion -- The Context of the Election -- The Conduct of the Election -- A Trial Indeed: The Treatment of Saddam Hussein -- Appendices. Perspectives on Gulf War I -- Appendix I. Off to a Bad Start: International Law and -- Appendix II. The Mother of All Clients: The PR -- Index -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Further Resources.